WORLD WAR 1 TRENCHES TO THE U.S.

THE TRENCHES Front line Communication Trench Support Trench Reserve trench Zig zag to prevent one range or distance for artillery to take out the entire trench, angles of fire, etc. No mans land huge craters caused by the shelling; nearly all vegetation was destroyed. Whenever possible, both sides filled this land with barbed wire to slow down any rapid advances by the enemy. The machine gun and the new long-range rifles made movement in this area almost impossible.

THE TRENCHES Living with the dead Examples  piling bodies up to create walls/barriers Hanging their canteens (water bottles) from legs and arms Bloody Dirty Trench foot Dysentery

TECHNOLOGY AND WEAPONS Rifles -had been around for a long time but improvements to ranges, sights, bullets and semi- automatic weapons have made them much more deadly Machine guns -1 st appeared in the civil war, they had the ability to fire multiple rounds and kill hundreds of soldiers when they came out of the trenches Submarines -underwater boats which could fire torpedoes and sink ships, example Lusitania which prompted American involvement

TECHNOLOGY AND WEAPONS Tanks -heavy armored troop carriers which had large cannons, these were first used in the battle of the Somme. Very slow, used to combat the heavy shelling in the trenches Poison Gas- Chlorine gas at the battle of Ypres, mustard gas, causes your lungs to burn and fill up with liquid causing suffocation. Airplanes- 1 st use of airplanes was for dropping bombs and spying/recon but later used for fighting other planes Trenches-already covered

BATTLES Deadliest battle-Hundred days war which killed 1.88 million people 1 st battle of Ypres People thought with the amount of countries involved and how many people died that the world leaders would never get into this kind of conflict again. Large geographic area November 11 th at the 11 th hour 1919(11 th hour of the 11 th day of the 11 th month Armistice-A temporary cessation of fighting by mutual consent; a truce. Veterans day

THE UNTIED STATES Neutrality- Monroe Doctrine, we didn’t want to be pushed into a foreign conflict that didn’t involve any of our territories (Roosevelt Collorary) Cost, Death, were not very well trained, isolationism, Within two months of the conflict’s August 1914 beginning, Charles Schwab, president of Bethlehem Steel, one of the world’s largest arms merchants, took a profitable trip to London Money, military, arms shipments, naval blockade,